Wedgwood
issued its first set of College Plates in 1927, 12 views of Harvard University
in blue. They chose a Fruit and Flower border that had been used on
Harvard dIning hall china c.1840. The following year,
a set of twelve plates was issued for Saint Paul's Preparatory School in
Concord, New Hampshire, many of whose graduates go on to college at Harvard.
A border featuring Oak leaves, acorns and squirrels was chosen to reflect
the rural nature of this boys' school. Several other schools had plates
issued in 1929, and by 1930 these plates had proved so popular that most prestigous colleges were having them made.

In most cases,
these plates were issued in series of eight or twelve views for each school,
and, in many cases, a school will have plates in more than one color or more
than one series. When I have more than one plate in a series, I show a
representative plate below, along with a link to a page showing the other
plates that I have in that series.

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